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09.29.2026

What Must Survive a Document?

Derrida, Talmud, and the difference between preserving words and understanding them.

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09.14.2026

Who Owns the Incense?

AI Safety, Past and Present

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09.07.2026

Ontology: Preparing the World to Be Seen

How Alex Karp Productized an Obscure Philosophical Concept and Turned it into one of the most Consequential Technologies of Our Time

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08.12.2026

Heidegger on AI "Art"

Great artists, as Heidegger describes, enact a struggle between their subject (the world) and the material they use to portray it (the earth).

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07.21.2026

The Paradox of AI Alignment

On the sixteenth of April, 1797, the crews of sixteen ships of the Channel Fleet, lying at anchor at Spithead off Portsmouth, refused to sail.

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07.16.2026

The Sexer's Hand

In 1933 the Japanese professors Masui and Hashimoto published a short paper on how to read the sex of a day-old chick.

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07.10.2026

J-Space and the Unconscious of the Text

I recently had the fortune of chatting with Rabbi David Fohrman, a brilliant rabbi and the founder of Aleph Beta, who has spent his career tracing intertextual patterns in the Torah.

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06.18.2026

On Memory: Human, Divine, and Artificial

Near the close of the fourth century, in the Roman port of Hippo on the North African coast, a bishop sat down to examine his own memory and frightened himself with what he found there.

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06.15.2026

Acquire For Yourself a Model, Make For Yourself a Teacher

A Midrash about Cain and Abel explains Satya Nadella’s latest argument in favor of frontier ecosystems over frontier models

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06.10.2026

Grow Old in It

In an Age of Free Information, Patience is a Moat

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What Must Survive a Document?

Who Owns the Incense?

Ontology: Preparing the World to Be Seen

Heidegger on AI "Art"

The Paradox of AI Alignment

The Sexer's Hand

J-Space and the Unconscious of the Text

On Memory: Human, Divine, and Artificial

Acquire For Yourself a Model, Make For Yourself a Teacher

Grow Old in It

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